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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk settles with SEC over fraud charge

Wouldn't obtaining and shipping 2 billion pennies be as much of a difficulty on his end as theirs?





OftenBen  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not at all really.

One party is responsible for verifying how much money they received. They have the burden of proof.

tacocat  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. You just walk into the bank and trade a $20 million dollar check for 2 billion pennies. Easy peasey

OftenBen  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Send the relevant amount of assistants to the relevant number of banks. Possibly work out an agreement with coin star or something.

It's not cost efficient, but no act of truly colossal pettiness is.

tacocat  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you thinking about this at all?

But I'm sure you're an expert on pettiness given the stupid shit you say in support of your pessimistic view of every damn thing.

ThurberMingus  ·  2006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's only 5000 literal metric tons of pennies. A couple sturdy interns with carts can get it done.

OftenBen  ·  2005 days ago  ·  link  ·  

An afternoon, maybe two.

HGL  ·  2005 days ago  ·  link  ·  

maybe it will fit in the pedo submarine